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Example sentences for: pendulum

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The pendulum swung away from those types of investigations during the 1980s and 1990s, though the FBI maintained an active counterintelligence function and was the lead agency for the investigation of foreign terrorist groups operating inside the United States.
An article says the pendulum is swinging back in sexual-harassment cases: It's the accused, not the accusers, who are now winning million-dollar judgments.
First, of course, came Frank Sinatra, his death the beau ideal of an on-time departure, given his image's pendulum swing over the last three decades from ultracool to camp to ultracool once more.
Doctors used to dictate treatment, but in the past decade the pendulum has swung too far toward patient autonomy.
The analog process in a mechanical watch is the motion of the pendulum or balance wheel and, in quartz watches, the electrical wave produced by a crystal oscillator.